A distributed power management policy for wireless ad hoc networks

This paper presents a power management scheme that maximizes energy saving in wireless ad hoc networks while still meeting the required quality of service (QoS). We assume that battery-powered devices can be remotely activated by a waking-up signal using a simple circuit based on RF tag technology. In this way, devices that are not currently active may enter a sleep state and power up only when they have pending traffic. Radio devices select different time-out values, so called sleep pattern, to enter various sleep states depending on their battery status and quality of service. Performances of the proposed policy are derived by simulation for a simple ad hoc network scenario. Results show the achieved tradeoff between power saving and traffic delay.